External Harddrive Filesize Limit

I bought an external 250 GB Iomega Harddrive to back up big Videofiles. It limits the filesize I can store on there to 4 GB. What am I doing wrong? Should it be formatted differently? If I reformat will I loose information that is already on the drive?
Thanks
Stefan
IMac 20 inch 2 GHz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Your drive is formatted for Windows, FAT 32, you will
have to reformat in order to use its full capacity,
the FAT is limited to a max of 4GB.
You can use <a
href=http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx
/23828>iPartition to save what's on the drive
now, and format the other part for Macs.
Please post back with results,
Miriam
Thanks for the quick answer. So what do I have to change the format to? From FAT 32 to a MAC specific format? Is there anything in Disc Utility that will help me, or do I have to buy IPartition?
If I start from scratch with a new harddrive can I format with Disc Utility?
Stefan
IMac 20 inch 2 GHz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)
IMac 20 inch 2 GHz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)
IMac 20 inch 2 GHz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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